John Younker Simon (June 25, 1933 – July 8, 2008) was an American Civil War scholar known for editing the papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Biography Born in Highland Park, Illinois, to Jane Younker and Jay Simon, he was on the history faculty of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, for 44 years. Simon had MA and PhD history degrees from Harvard University. He received the Lincoln Prize Special Achievement Award in 2004 from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College for his then-24, later 31 volume Grant series. The same year, he also received The Lincoln Forum's Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement. He died July 8, 2008 in Carbondale, Illinois at the age of 75. Quotes "(He is) one of the finest people I've ever met." -- Geoffrey Perret, author of Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President See also Bibliography of Ulysses S. Grant References External links 1933 births 2008 deaths 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Harvard University alumni Historians of the United States Historians of the American Civil War Ohio State University faculty People from Carbondale, Illinois People from Highland Park, Illinois Historians from Illinois Southern Illinois University Carbondale faculty Swarthmore College alumni Ulysses S. Grant 20th-century American male writers